Quotes About Vulnerability

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Boys are the cash of war.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.